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latino in 1988. this year, 23%. for romney to overcome his unpopularity with latinos and other minorities he has to win 60% of white voters. and a republican strategist confirmed that quote this election is the last time anyone will try to do this. the last time. joining us now echaveste. she served as assistant to the president and deputy chief of staff for president clinton. she is now a political and policy strategist at mvg and a senior fellow at the center for american progress. welcome back inside "the war room." >> thank for having me. >> jennifer: it's great to have you here because i think we need some forward looking news. arizona and texas both reliably red right now, although in september, the president came within three points in one poll in arizona leading many to say, wow, could arizona be the next swing state in this election? do you think if not in this one, in the next one, that those two states would be in the swing state category. >> this motivated a great number of hispanics in a
latino in 1988. this year, 23%. for romney to overcome his unpopularity with latinos and other minorities he has to win 60% of white voters. and a republican strategist confirmed that quote this election is the last time anyone will try to do this. the last time. joining us now echaveste. she served as assistant to the president and deputy chief of staff for president clinton. she is now a political and policy strategist at mvg and a senior fellow at the center for american progress. welcome...
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do you think that that will help the president win latino voters? >> daka, action for childhood arrivals has been the first win the first relief in over 20 years. we got this two years after the dream act failed in the senate. so for us, when we see our families being separated. we see students afraid to go to school. something as simple as a stop for turning the wrong way something so simple can lead to deportation when you have been here your whole life. this is something that we welcome and it is going help president obama who has said in states like arizona, immigration is the top issue. >> jennifer: just to get to arizona because republican governor jan brewer has been making it more difficult for dreamers and for other undocumented people to get a college education overall. talk about what shed and whether that's been successful. >> governor brewer, the day she announced action she announced that any deferred action beneficiary in the state of arizona was not going to be eligible for a driver's license. it was an executive order that she issue
do you think that that will help the president win latino voters? >> daka, action for childhood arrivals has been the first win the first relief in over 20 years. we got this two years after the dream act failed in the senate. so for us, when we see our families being separated. we see students afraid to go to school. something as simple as a stop for turning the wrong way something so simple can lead to deportation when you have been here your whole life. this is something that we...
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large latino registration since 2008 about a 20% increase in latino registration. and also young people. so those are areas where we're really pushing to make sure the vote comes out on november 6th. >> jennifer: it is safe to say the biggest part of your effort will be getting out the vote rather than persuasion? really a huge effort is in gotv right? >> the persuasion eh fore has been going on. this effort has been working for weeks, months even. so persuasion has gone on and certainly over the next eleven to ten days here it is a get out to vote now, which is a two-step process in virginia. because we don't have voter registration. we have to identify someone who is leaning our way, and make sure they get out and exercise their fundamental right to vote. in 2008 we had a 75% turnout. so we're really pushing, the largest the turnout the better -- >> jennifer: talk to me quickly, the republican's ground game. we only have about 30 seconds, but what are they going to get out the vote that you have seen? >> a lot of television. i have received mail for the governor
large latino registration since 2008 about a 20% increase in latino registration. and also young people. so those are areas where we're really pushing to make sure the vote comes out on november 6th. >> jennifer: it is safe to say the biggest part of your effort will be getting out the vote rather than persuasion? really a huge effort is in gotv right? >> the persuasion eh fore has been going on. this effort has been working for weeks, months even. so persuasion has gone on and...
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and a big part of that is to reach out to latino voters. and jeb bush is warning that the problem with hispanic voters is so bad that texas, texas! now a red state could turn blue by 2016. so speaking of 2016 if governor romney loses to president obama, jeb bush becomes a leading gop front runner. automatically. so what is the likelihood that he is going to run? here to discuss that is joe hagen, joe has penned the article "bush in the wilderness" for this week's edition. i'm so fascinated by this piece. it was really so in depth. you really got inside of what was going on in the bush family. let's start with jeb. so why didn't he run this time? >> well, he was born. and he definitely wanted to and he had a lot of people asking him to practically begging him to. but what ended up happening was there was some issues inside of his own family -- >> jennifer: like what in >> well, his wife who has never been interested on being on the political stage with him. she has long been very much in the background extremely private. she does not speak e
and a big part of that is to reach out to latino voters. and jeb bush is warning that the problem with hispanic voters is so bad that texas, texas! now a red state could turn blue by 2016. so speaking of 2016 if governor romney loses to president obama, jeb bush becomes a leading gop front runner. automatically. so what is the likelihood that he is going to run? here to discuss that is joe hagen, joe has penned the article "bush in the wilderness" for this week's edition. i'm so...
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counted, they call it spoiled is 900% higher than if you're a white voter. 500% higher than if you're a latino voter than a white voter. plus 3.2 million voters were wiped off the voter rolls in the last election. this time, it will be worse and how does this happen? how come black voters have a tough time getting their ballots counted? how come they get wiped off the voter rolls. >> jennifer: what's the deal? what's going on? >> two things. data trust and teamous. it is a giant data mining operation that was funded and created by the koch brothers. data trust is run by a guy that george bush gave the flowery name of terd blossom mr. karl rove. he runs something called data trust. these operations act like electronic drones, knocking out and challenging the votes the ballots and the registration almost exclusively of minority voters. >> jennifer: how does that work. i don't get it. how does that electronically happen. i don't understand the mechanism. >> there's two ways. for example, i was the reporter that broke the story for bbc of how katherine harris back in 2000 knocked off tens of thous
counted, they call it spoiled is 900% higher than if you're a white voter. 500% higher than if you're a latino voter than a white voter. plus 3.2 million voters were wiped off the voter rolls in the last election. this time, it will be worse and how does this happen? how come black voters have a tough time getting their ballots counted? how come they get wiped off the voter rolls. >> jennifer: what's the deal? what's going on? >> two things. data trust and teamous. it is a giant...
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there are many latino and african-american churches that are organizing souls to the polls, caravans to encourage early voting. for viewers who don't know what that is, do you think it is an effective strategy? >> on sundays church services get buses together to go vote. they would make it part of something that the community did. the african-american church, going back to the civil rights movement. that continues through the early voting which to tell you -- to answer your question about how effective it is, the reason we know it is effective is because it is one of the things that was targeted in some of the voter laws in florida trying to make it difficult to vote on sundays so that tells me that obviously someone thought it was a little bit too effective if you will. so look, current data showing that the obama campaign appears to have an edge on early voting. you know we'll see if that trend keeps up. it is very important for the african-american voter turnout to the campaign. really quickly i interviewed emanuel clever, head of the congressional black caucus. he said if the bla
there are many latino and african-american churches that are organizing souls to the polls, caravans to encourage early voting. for viewers who don't know what that is, do you think it is an effective strategy? >> on sundays church services get buses together to go vote. they would make it part of something that the community did. the african-american church, going back to the civil rights movement. that continues through the early voting which to tell you -- to answer your question about...